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From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,vmsnet.mail.pmdf,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Problems with relaying email...
Message-ID: <22523@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 24 Apr 91 16:55:54 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.134148.24430@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> <1991Apr24.141509.21301@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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| In article <1991Apr24.134148.24430@ucunx1.san.uc.edu> Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu writes:
[...]		    However, up above this in the headers is another line
| >that contains username@ucunix.  The name of this header line is called
| >either From or Return-path:, depending on the receiving machine.  When
| >it's a Return-path line, the address is enclosed in <>.

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
|   This sounds like a configuration error on the Ultrix system.  It is the
| responsibility of that system to ensure that all mail leaving the system
| has proper return address, meaning fully qualified domain names. 

 Ok so far, but you also have to look at the expression used to generate
the `from ' line: on my Suns it's 

DlFrom $g $d

... which drives our DECs and VAXen dotty.  $g needs to turn into the full
return address, not the short form.  I usually use $q, but that's machine-
specific.  Your milage may vary.

--dave
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